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To: JulieRNR21

The entire quotation from Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of the Pearl Harbor Raid, went like this:

I fear that we have awakened a sleeping giant,
and filled him with a terrible resolve.

42 posted on 09/12/2001 9:24:50 PM PDT by Bryan

To: Bryan

There was another metaphor about a little lucky sumo who gets squashed like a bug!

44 posted on 09/12/2001 9:31:38 PM PDT by f.Christian

To: Bryan

I fear that we have awakened a sleeping giant, and filled him with a terrible resolve.

Thanks you, Bryan I had not heard the entire statement quoted. But it is certainly as true for 9/11/01 as it was for 12/7/41.

65 posted on 09/13/2001 8:33:42 AM PDT by JulieRNR21

To: Bryan

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."

89 posted on 10/07/2001 10:02:27 PM PDT by Riley

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